Short Fiction · Character

Mr. Cooper

A practical country neighbour who vouches for the new staff at the Hall and lends his time, and his garden keys, to the young heir.

supporting

Also known as Cooper

First appearance: the stalls of barchester cathedral

As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Mr. Cooper is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

The estate agent who accompanies Humphreys and discusses the late uncle's character.

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Cooper is a solid, obliging man of the neighbourhood, the sort who can answer for the grooms and gardeners and who treats his own hours as a resource at his friends' disposal. He is proud of the household he has helped assemble and cheerfully agrees to walk the new master over the house and grounds. His daughter's talk of the locked maze and the old temple, and his own easy confidence about the place, give the story its first hints that the Hall's pleasant surfaces may not be the whole of it.

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Character Web

13 connections

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Relationship types

Professional
Other

Character groups

Supernatural Investigators & Victims
Diverse Supernatural Encounters
Country House Mysteries & Hidden Rooms

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Aftermath
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Relationships

Mr. Humphreys
professional · ambivalent
Mr. Humphreys
professional · ambivalent
Mr. Humphreys
professional · ambivalent

Mr. Humphreys
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Humphreys are colleagues or business associates with frequent interactions, likely in a work or institutional setting.
Mr. Humphreys
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Humphreys are colleagues or business associates with frequent interactions, likely in a work or institutional setting.
Mr. Humphreys
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Humphreys are colleagues or business associates with frequent interactions, likely in a work or institutional setting.

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